The Last Halloween

                                                   By: Darian, 7^th grade

            “Come on mom we are going to be late! I want to get to Ana’s early enough so we can pick out our costumes!” I said. My mom replied “you need to get all of your stuff together so we can leave!” I shouted right back “I am ready you’re the one that has taken 30 minutes to do your makeup!” right when she tried to shout back I said “all right we need to be calm and rational about this!” as she agreed with a nod I started to walk out the door. As she followed I stated to sing. Then awkwardly she started to sing, I found myself finally at Ana’s house. She dropped me off, I was so happy to find Ana sitting on the front porch with a smile on her face. This was very, very good in Ana’s language; it either meant she was happy or that she had a very mischievous plan.

            It ended up being a mischievous plan. Well let’s just say when we went upstairs she showed me the costumes we would be wearing. They were cool but weird at the same time, the first costumes were a dead Juliet costume for Ana and I would be Juliet’s dead sister. The second costumes were more bright and vibrant. (Wouldn’t want anyone to notice the second time around!) We ended up being dancers off of So You Think You Can Dance!!  The third costume was or pajamas! We had gotten fruit punch at one house before and we carried those with us. We were just lounging freaks!!   

            After we put on our first costume we ran down the stairs and grabbed our bags. As we started to run out the door her mom wanted us to stay to hand out candy, that ended with “Mom Darian is here” and we were gone.  We stopped at almost every house, the first few gave crappy candy but then success came! We got about 3 full size candy bars! When our bags were full we headed home, well to put the other costumes on any way!

            We went upstairs to put on our second costume, we had to put our candy on garbage bags and go around again. This was the best time because the sun was about to set. The sky was beautiful, but the real reason it was the best time was because it was getting dark we could scare little kids! The parents got mad but they did not know who we were so it did not matter THAT much.

            As we ran back to the house to get into our third costume we saw this cute guy. He said hi and that we should come to his house because the special effects were awesome! So he took us about .5 miles from where we were come to find out he lived just around the corner from Ana! He took us in (his mom was standing there so we figured we were safe.)  As we went through the house to the backyard he started randomly talking to us like he had known us like forever. It was kinda awkward but it didn’t madder that much….. I guess. As we stepped into the back we saw one of those head chopper things and some heads and bodies! They made it smell like dead people, they had blood on the blade and the bodies and heads looked sooooo real!! There was smoke everywhere and you could barely see in front of you!!

All of a sudden I heard Ana scream and it being cutting off by a clean slice as the blade fell. As soon as I felt some one grab my neck I started to scream. As I literally fought for my life the grip on my neck tightened as I was pushed down to my knees. I thought the murderer had shattered my knee caps, the force was so hard!  My head hit something hard; I was hoping that it was NOT the hole that the people put your head in to hold it when they let the blade go. Well it was, he tried to put my head in the hole but I had to get away. I had to go and tell Ana’s mom that her child had been killed because we were at the wrong place at the wrong time. I had to get out of his powering grip. I kicked hoping it would hit the murderer, I missed. As I kicked again I hit, success!! He let go for only a few seconds and I was GONE!!

I totally cleared the fence and ran to Ana’s house. Or what was now her mom’s house. As I told her mom the story she did not believe me. We set out to the car to go to the guy’s house. As we walked into the backyard her mom screamed and just like her daughters it was cut off with a slice of a blade. I was about to give up when the guy grabbed me so I just gave up and walked over. When he saw that I was willing to give my life for my friends he stated to laugh and well let’s just say that was the 10^th clean slice of the night.